Shipped
- ✓Explore. Equal Earth, Globe and Mercator, one continuous zoom between them, folding into a real street map (OpenStreetMap via MapLibre) at close range.
- ✓Compare. Drag any two countries, historical unions, or continents onto each other at true scale. Measure the great-circle distance between two points.
- ✓Learn. Short chapters on the history and maths of projections, plus guided multi-step stories ("How big is Africa, really?", "How small is Greenland, really?").
- ✓Play. A daily five question round, size and area estimates, a streak.
- ✓Voice narration for Learn chapters, with a curated voice and language picker.
- ✓A Zinc colour theme alongside the default Midnight, and a scene control for time of day, night lights, the Milky Way and aurora.
- ✓A full-screen expand view on both desktop and mobile, for presenting or screenshotting the map alone.
Learn roadmap
Learn is the part of EqualGlobe most likely to keep growing. It's the cheapest place to add a real idea without touching the map engine itself, since every chapter and story is just a sequence of moves the map can already make.
- More stories beyond the two shipped. Candidates under consideration include the Gall-Peters controversy told as its own walkthrough (right now it's one chapter, "The equal-area rebels"), and a story built around Togo specifically, given its role carrying the 2026 resolution to the UN.
- Better narration. Browser text-to-speech is free and needs no account, which is why it shipped first, but its prosody has a ceiling. A paid, higher-quality voice API is a realistic upgrade once the free path stops being enough.
- A deeper look at the Play result screen. Today it's a streak and a countdown; visual ideas like showing the silhouette of the country that fooled you most are proposed but not yet built.
Under consideration
Not committed, not scheduled. Things worth naming so the direction is visible, not things you should expect by a date.
- Live, sourced context per place: local time, and possibly weather, alongside a country's area, so a comparison isn't only about size.
- A quiet, optional way to support the project directly, since it carries no ads and no paywall.
- Deeper coverage of disputed and limited-recognition territories' history, beyond the dashed-outline convention the map already uses.
What we won't do
- ✕No metered map API (Google Maps, Mapbox). The data stays Natural Earth (public domain) and OpenStreetMap (open, attributed), so the map never depends on a vendor's pricing.
- ✕No accounts, no login, no tracking beyond optional, cookieless, anonymous analytics. See the privacy page.
- ✕No paywall on the map itself. Classrooms are the primary audience; nothing here should cost a school anything.